“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”

“Did they live happily ever after?
HAHAHAHAHA. No.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

“There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside. If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.”

Bill Condon (1955) American film director

“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.”

Margaret Wander Bonanno (1950) American writer

“Some people never find it
Some only pretend
But I just want to live
Happily ever after, now and then”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

“There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist